digits: A Dual Way to Back Up Your Computer

WSJ's Personal Technology Columnist Walt Mossberg talks to Simon Constable and Lauren Goode on the Digits show about a new approach to backing up your computer.

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... what you've also been known to some of oil will remain open even move in ... a new product from Hitachi and use a pot of it is like ... Stovall without this way down ... before we get some of the twenty something that tells about a prototype robot ... well I Hitachi's the hard ... drive company among other things and um ... they have introduced a new line of external hard drives which ... people use for a variety of things but when big water forces to back up your computer and everybody should back up their computer ... with very few people ... as a percentage really do so I there's two ways to do it you can back it up will lead to a twenty sec strong hard drive you can view on the Web ... two in which was service on our server Macleod ... which means that if your house God forbid burns down or gets flooded or something you still love all your stuff ... on someone else server ... and a key thing about this product which is well liked studio this line of hard drives ... is that ... Hitachi has both kinds of backup built into them ... you can ... it's a very simple backup program ... doesn't require any technical skill ... and from that one screen ... become both locally back up and back up into the cloud ... and thats an interesting and somewhat different approach that they take what you meant as people become increasingly more mobile and laptop in fact ... a live act this year at all the stuff in storage and cloud is a good thing but what are some of the collections with this ... well there if they're built ... they're there they're they're just a few glitches and I'll just mention one ... in the software it sometimes says the drive is both need only which means you when you right into the back up to an ... eight minute Subodh ... there and fix it there were several others I found that BP can read about my comp ... any said the fix those two and there are some other features here ...